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Quotes about religion reflect humanity’s enduring search for meaning, purpose, and the sacred. They express faith, doubt, devotion, and reflection across cultures and traditions. The following collection offers perspectives that invite contemplation on belief and the role it plays in human life.   ◀ Back
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NOT YET RATED ▼
As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.
- Teju Cole
Open City
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.
- Gene Roddenberry
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong
- George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say
- Ronnie Shakes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed
- Crystal Flanagan
10 Seconds from Glory
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
- Michael Crichton
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
- F.H. Bradley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)
- Thomas Cahill
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why—and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions—did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it?
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997.
- Huston Smith
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside.
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.
- Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of witchcraft is just being present.
- Lily Anderson
Undead Girl Gang
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.
- Teju Cole
Open City
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.
- Gene Roddenberry
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong
- George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say
- Ronnie Shakes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed
- Crystal Flanagan
10 Seconds from Glory
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
- Michael Crichton
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
- F.H. Bradley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)
- Thomas Cahill
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why—and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions—did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it?
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997.
- Huston Smith
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside.
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.
- Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of witchcraft is just being present.
- Lily Anderson
Undead Girl Gang
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.
- Teju Cole
Open City
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.
- Gene Roddenberry
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong
- George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say
- Ronnie Shakes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed
- Crystal Flanagan
10 Seconds from Glory
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
- Michael Crichton
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
- F.H. Bradley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)
- Thomas Cahill
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why—and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions—did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it?
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997.
- Huston Smith
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside.
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.
- Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most of witchcraft is just being present.
- Lily Anderson
Undead Girl Gang
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Topic: Religion
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